Happy New Year . . . and Outta Town

Just fyi.

I’ll be out of town for a week or so. Look for a return of Xcargo around 10 January.

Happy New Year.

President Ford

President Ford is dead. Let us be saddened. Let us praise a good man.

Let us weep that his like is not to be found in the GOP, much less the White House, today.

Merry Xmas #2

And in rather similar terms . . . but on the other side of the fence . . .

I see in the paper that the Christian Right, which has made “keep Christ in Christmas” a major part of its crusade against Liberals, is actually turning a tidy profit from the whole business. It’s selling pins and bumper stickers, as well as raising funds from gullible Church-goers, to defend “Merry Christmas” from “Happy Holidays.” The article I read said that American Family Association alone has taken in $550,000 in “sales of buttons and magnets stamped with the slogan ‘Merry Christmas: It’s Worth Saying.’”

Gosh. Cash and mean-spirited politics.

That’s certainly what I want under my Christmas tree.

Don’t you?





(Source: LA Times, reprinted in Boston Globe, December 24, 2006. P. A13)

Merry Xmas #1

Last time I wished everyone a “Happy Holiday.” That’s PC-speak for “Merry Christmas.”

Actually, I do have mixed feelings about saying “Merry Christmas” this time of year. On the one hand, I do genuinely understand that it is both unpleasant and intolerant to assume that everyone belongs to the same faith tradition as I.

Yet . . .

And yet . . .

Have you noticed that the people who make the biggest fuss about it are really and truly, deep down, at base, secretly saying something along the lines of “Diversity means that if I celebrate it, it’s good. If you celebrate it, then scr*w you, you vicious Nazi b*stard" ?

Happy Holidays

Whatever you celebrate this season . . . HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Separated At Birth?

The scary thing? You know I don’t much care for that Sacha Baron Cohen movie, which I believe is anti-American and bullying to boot.

But, well . . . you know . . . I saw on the web a photo of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressing that conference of Holocaust Deniers . . .

Is it just me, or does he look more like Borat with every passing day?

Seward Collins

Here's my newest adventure in video weirdness. It's a short piece on the chap who is the subject of my most recent book and can be found at Youtube, here:

Youtube Seward Collins

or at the Internet Archive, here:

Internet Archive Collins


cheers

mjt

Alas!

You know the tragic thing? After all the sh*t the neconnies have pulled . . . the slander, the lies, the bullying, the fraudulent impeachment, 9/11, Homeland “Defense,” Iraq, Katrina . . .

The first thing I thought when I heard about poor Senator Tim Johnson’s illness was:

Check his throat for finger prints, ‘cause sure as h*ll they’re gonna be Ch*ney's.

MBAs

Did you see in the news the other day that some study has shown that MBA students cheat more than another kind?

Gee.

So, let me get this straight. We’ve got a culture which says that winning is the only thing that matters, which teaches that “business ethics” are a contradiction in terms, which points with pride to Enron and sweetheart deals for crony capitalists in Iraq, and which chants “increase shareholder value” like a mantra while at the same time encouraging every CEO to act like a blood-sucking, flesh shredding, sewer shark.

And MBAs cheat in school.

Gosh. Who wudda thunk it?

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